Centre Mall -> The Centre on Barton - Page 39

flar · #**761** Posted **Dec 5, 2008, 9:52 PM**

The empty lot across from Lister used to be a Zellers.

bornagainbiking · #**762** Posted **Dec 5, 2008, 11:48 PM**

The Barn at KingRose Plaza is METRO now.

flar · #**763** Posted **Dec 6, 2008, 12:01 AM**

The Metro rebranding is also complete at the A&P in Dundas and Barns in Dundas and Westdale.

markbarbera · #**764** Posted **Dec 6, 2008, 1:26 PM**

I was in the Metro on Upper James the other day. I like the new concept. The rebranding has involved more physical renovations than I expected. I really like the new prepared foods areas - very clean looking and easy to find stuff.

The rebranding at the Centre Mall Metro is much more basic, presumably because an entirely new location is being built just west of the new Zellers. Anyone have a completion date for it? I'm guessing next spring sometime.

LikeHamilton · #**765** Posted **Dec 6, 2008, 3:19 PM**

The staff at the Metro store at Centre Mall told me they expect to move to the new store next summer. Yes it is next to, west of the new Zellers store behind the present Metro.

adam · #**766** Posted **Dec 6, 2008, 8:26 PM**

Is the new Zeller's a lot better than the old Zeller's?

FairHamilton · #**767** Posted **Dec 6, 2008, 8:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by adam

Is the new Zeller's a lot better than the old Zeller's?

Sorry, I'd never stepped foot in the old one. Not my favourite shopping place......

hammergirl · #**768** Posted **Dec 7, 2008, 10:17 PM**

The Barn at Upper Ottawa and StoneChurch is a Metro now too. I was there last week and was impressed with the changes but was disappointed they didn't have any frozen veggies in the store at the time.

adam · #**769** Posted **Dec 7, 2008, 10:50 PM**

Great place for fresh veggies just down the street from the Centre parking-lot mall...
http://www.farmersmarketsontario.com...?uMarketID=131

fastcarsfreedom · #**770** Posted **Dec 8, 2008, 1:45 AM**

Most of the physical renovations of the existing A&P/Dominion/Barn/Loeb are complete. The rebranding is the last step in the strategy and basically involves only signage changes, new promotional materials and a change in staff uniforms. The change seems to be occuring systematically (city-by-city) in Ontario--radiating outward from the GTA, which seems to have been completed first.

adam · #**771** Posted **Dec 9, 2008, 4:31 PM**

So are they changing the name of Centre Mall? A mall has a shared pedestrian area.... something like Centre Plaza would be accurate.

fastcarsfreedom · #**772** Posted **Dec 9, 2008, 4:51 PM**

Centre Mall was a name used for marketing purposes. The property is/was officially called the Greater Hamilton Shopping Centre. Sears used that full name throughout the store's existence.

markbarbera · #**773** Posted **Dec 9, 2008, 10:53 PM**

There's been no indication of any name change to the development. I would be surprised if they did change the branding. No need to really.

realcity · #**774** Posted **Dec 10, 2008, 1:20 AM**

The Centre Power Center

i couldn't resist, i love the name so much

logo

pylon

adam · #**775** Posted **Dec 10, 2008, 2:41 AM**

Great branding idea realcity! The American spelling of Center at the end to show its a group of US owned box stores. And its no longer a mall, so silly to keep calling it that.

BCTed · #**776** Posted **Dec 10, 2008, 4:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by adam

Great branding idea realcity! The American spelling of Center at the end to show its a group of US owned box stores. And its no longer a mall, so silly to keep calling it that.

US owned? As far as I know, the following are all Canadian-owned or at least have Canadian roots:

Canadian Tire
Tip Top
TD Canada Trust
Hollywood Salon
Sally Beauty
CIBC
Scotiabank
Centre Mall Dental
Peoples Jewellers
Rogers
Boston Pizza
Tim Horton's
Bell World
Desjardin Credit Union
Zellers
Shoppers Drug Mart
Royal Bank
LCBO
Metro
Brewers Retail

astroblaster · #**777** Posted **Dec 10, 2008, 2:26 PM**

how about East Hamilton Park 'N' Consume

fastcarsfreedom · #**778** Posted **Dec 10, 2008, 2:41 PM**

I'm so amused by the discussion in this thread. Please get over the fact that the former Centre Mall was NEVER some oasis of urbanism, populated only by folks who walked, rode bikes or took transit. It was a mid-century shopping centre built specifically for folks who wanted to drive, park for free and shop. It was built specifically to capture retail trade from what were the primary commercial districts at the time (namely, downtown). Claiming anything else is a cross between simple delusion and revisionist history.

Secondly, the term "Mall" while generally used to refer to enclosed shopping centres, is not exclusively used as such. Most people I knew referred to it simply as "The Centre" anyway.

realcity · #**779** Posted **Dec 10, 2008, 3:08 PM**

i agree, but this is still is a step backwards.

I think indoor Malls have much more urban value then Power Centers. At least you park once and patronize multiple stores and services. A mall parking lot has considerably less cars driving around then these formats because of this reason. These formats encourage people to park visit a store then get back in the car and drive through the parking lot to visit another store within the same complex.

Indoor malls make more sense in Canada, when we have winter/slush 6 months a year and 30 degree humid whether for another two months.

It should be a horse track.

markbarbera · #**780** Posted **Dec 10, 2008, 3:10 PM**

C'mon guys, Adam was obviously trolling to revive the same old tired arguments against the Centre Mall redevelopment. Why take the bait?

I was in the new Zellers over the weekend. I really like the new layout. The wide aisles and general layout is a marked improvement over the old location at the mall. It was way to cluttered and had an odd layout, much due to the fact that it was designed originally for a completely different style of department store.